This chart collection explores how health spending is expected to grow in coming years. In 2024, per capita health spending growth is estimated to have slowed to 4.5%.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
The Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF are partnering to monitor how well the U.S. healthcare system is performing in terms of quality and cost. The Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker provides clear, up-to-date information on trends, drivers and issues that impact the performance of the system. It also illustrates how the U.S. is […]| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
The brief provides a quick explainer of the prescription drug provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law on August 16, 2022 and presents new estimates on how many Medicare beneficiaries could be helped by those provisions.| KFF
In June 2024, medical inflation (3.3%) outpaced inflation in the overall economy (3.0%) for the first time since the beginning of 2021.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
This data note reviews our recent polling data that finds that Americans struggle to afford many aspects of health care, including disproportionate shares of uninsured adults, Black and Hispanic adults and those with lower incomes.| KFF
In a given year, a small portion of the population is responsible for a very large percentage of total health spending. We tend to focus on averages when discussing health spending, but individuals’ health status – and thus their need to access and utilize healthcare – varies over the course of their lifetimes. In fact, very few people have spending around the average. This collection of charts explores trends in health spending variation across the population through an analysis of the...| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy among comparable countries, but spends twice as much as similar countries on healthcare per person, on average.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker
Despite over 90% of the United States population having some form of health insurance, medical debt remains a persistent problem. This analysis shows that 20 million people (nearly 1 in 12 adults) owe medical debt.| Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker